Reduce tears when cutting an onion

Reduce tears when cutting an onion

Freeze the onion for half an hour before use. This helps becausecutting an onion releases sulphur from the cell walls, which in turn triggers a tearing reaction from your eyes. If you chill it first, the enzymes will slow resulting in less of the irritating sulphur molecules being produced, and those that are will move more slowly as they escape the onion walls so less will reach your eyes.